Volkswagen wanted to build a car that could go 100km on a litre of fuel. Now, 15 years after setting that challenge for itself, it has exceeded its goals in almost every way. The VW XL1 is built like a supercar, looks like a spacepod, feels like a production model and crosses the Autobahn while using barely 0.009 litres of fuel every kilometre. This is what it’s like to drive the future.

21 September 2010

How you’re going to get your charge on is one of the big issues surrounding hybrid vehicles, and we’ve already seen technology to charge your car at home using cheaper off-peak rates. But what if you could actually sell the power already in your car back to the electricity company during periods of peak demand?

1 July 2010

The transforming Ville concept folding bicycle is no mere bike – it is a bike-slash-shopping trolley hybrid vehicle for the 21st century eco-friendly consumer. It is bicycle and grocery containment in one convenient form factor.

18 May 2010

We jumped inside a Mercedes F800 last week – the car that will offer three flavours of fuel as soon as 2012. Mercedes says that the future is a three-lane highway, with cars running on petrol, electricity and hydrogen.